The Daisy Gumm Majesty Cozy Mystery Box Set 3 by Alice Duncan

Author:Alice Duncan [Duncan, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-64457-094-4
Publisher: ePublishing Works!

Fifteen

“Sam!” I said as soon as I stepped into the house and before I knelt to greet Spike. “Have you interviewed anyone or learned anything else yet?”

Aggrieved, Sam said, “I only just got here, for Pete’s sake. I had to go to the station and make arrangements for someone to relieve Doan if he called. Since you’re here, I guess he didn’t need anyone to come rescue him.”

“Four of Mr. Jackson’s friends showed up just a few minutes ago. They’re huge, Sam. If anyone tries anything funny, I expect one of them will just pick him up and throw him down the stairs or something. Or maybe sit on him until he suffocates. Or—”

“I get the picture,” said Sam, grumpy as usual.

Pa chuckled, bless the man. Neither Ma nor Aunt Vi was anywhere in sight—this was in the dining room, since I’d come through the side door. Sam and Pa had each taken a seat at the table. I presume Ma and Aunt Vi were napping, which was what I aimed to do as soon as I could. It had been an eventful day, and I wanted to rest a while. After, of course, I ate my carrots like a good girl.

Too bad for me Sam had other ideas. “Would you be willing to go with me to interview Mrs. Georgia Akers?”

That woke me up in a hurry. I stood abruptly and stared at the man. “You want me to help you?”

He heaved a huge sigh. “Yeah. These people don’t seem to dislike talking to you as much as they dislike talking to police personnel.”

I smiled at him. “Told you so. Over and over again. I’m nicer than you are. That’s why people talk to me.”

“Daisy, that’s not fair,” said Pa, not awfully forcefully.

“It might not be fair, but you don’t understand what some segments of Pasadena’s populace have endured via the police of our fair city.”

“You don’t know that they’ve endured anything,” said Sam, thundering slightly.

I sniffed. “How many policemen have been suspended because they’re members of the Ku Klux Klan?”

“Dammit. Six. But they’ve been suspended, which means the city fathers of Pasadena won’t put up with that sort of nonsense.”

“Officer Petrie is a member of the Klan, and he hasn’t been suspended.” Although he did break his leg, a circumstance that made me smile.

“He will be. I visited him after I left Jackson’s room. He was pretty mad about my questioning him, but he owned up to being a Klan member, so I told him to quit either the Klan or the police department. I’ll tell the chief tomorrow. Don’t want to bother him on a Sunday.”

“Was Miss Petrie there with him?”

“I don’t know Miss Petrie,” Sam grumbled. “A woman was in his room when I entered it. She didn’t speak while I was there.”

“Medium height, skinny, mouse-brown hair, limp—her hair, not her—big glasses. Looks intellectual. Actually, I think she’d be pretty if she fixed her hair and wore a touch or rouge. Wears boring clothes.”

After eyeing me for an appreciable second or two, Sam said, “Yeah, I think that must have been the one.

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